whirlbird wrote:
Also, if Hosono and Takahashi were producing everything on that label, I should really check out more of it. Good stuff.

Yeah, I highly recommend the Yen releases, also worth looking into is Hosono's Non-Standard imprint that carried on after Yen.

Haruomi Hosono produced their only full length from '82, and the few remaining non album tracks from Testpattern all came out in Hosono-related releases, mainly the Apogee & Perigee collab album (with Hosono, Miharu Koshi, Jun Togawa and others) all of which came out on Alfa's imprint label YEN. I b...

I bought a JX-3P (without the PG200) last week for $400. Everything works minus a dead battery so no saving of custom patches. Programming with the slider is actually quite easy after just looking at the 'edit map' a few times. It's numbered very intuitively so you learn it quickly. I also like how ...

What a lovely surprise. My only gripe is that it's only 49 keys. I do however understand the reasoning for/why. NAMM this year has been huge, I'm a teeny bit mad at myself for not registering this year only because it was in Anaheim again and I didn't want to make the drive out there.

I had put up my CZ-5000 on Craigslist last year, for a few months, listed it at $200 but nobody even inquired.

It is tedious to program, but yeah, you can get cool sounds out of it.

I still have my first synth, a Casio CZ-5000. I enjoyed it quite a lot before I got into analog synths. I'm gonna sell it soon though, since it is just sitting in the closet. I had a cz5000. Its an interesting synth, I need to try and replicate some of the weird envelope generator patches on the bl...

I still have my first synth, a Casio CZ-5000. I enjoyed it quite a lot before I got into analog synths. I'm gonna sell it soon though, since it is just sitting in the closet.

I also would highly recommend Greg. If the filter works on a voice but one of the VCOs does not it could be a dead CEM3340 VCO chip. I have them in stock. Yeah, if I decide to get it serviced, Greg seems to the best guy in CA for this. I'm not sure if I explained it right originally, but the louder...

I dunno about the second guy, but I'd trust Greg M. at analogsynthservice with anything. He did a great job with an Arp Odyssey I had for a little while. I'd drop him a line and see what he can do for you. Since it's a Prophet 5, you'd want to pack it very very well, perhaps consider buying a hard ...

I bought a Prophet 5 rev 3.0 this past July. Initially I had some j-wire problems, mainly re-triggering keys. I was able to fix this temporarily by cleaning the j-wire and busbar. A few hours ago, I noticed that when I played chords that only 1 note that would be built from a, say for example, 5 not...

YouTube is your friend (these are all post-release, within the last month): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCe8V7njBLM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Ov5_G3-TA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICu5SmJBo9g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHOGn2kRxP8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSsZ6nn2js8 http://ww...

No one has mentioned the name of the song OP was asking about, so it is: Cosmic Surfin' from their debut album "Yellow Magic Orchestra" 1978.